White Flags

The White Flags were a union of various insurgent remnants from the Iraqi Civil War which was founded in 2017 with the goal of fighting against the Iraqi government. It included Kurdish Islamic State fighters, Ansar al-Islam remnants, Ba'athists affiliated with the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order, Saddam Hussein loyalists, and Ansar al-Sunnah members, and it was variously described as a Kurdish nationalist/secessionist faction, a union of insurgent remnants, a mix of Islamist fighters unaffiliated with external organizations, or a front organization of Ansar al-Islam. It had between 500 and 1,000 fighters, and it operated in the Tuz Khurmatu area.